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08/17/2008 7:36 PM
Yes I do know the original meaning of "merkin", it was force of habit. It's a Usenet in-joke, and something I probably should not use in other fora. It's been observed that people from the USA take themselves very seriously when they first join global fora. They also refer to themselves as "A merkin", even tho' there are several countries in the North American continent and whole bunch more in Central and Southern America. So us cheeky "furriners" refer to them as "merkins", with the resulting giggles when they consult a dictionary. There is also a tendency for some people to self identify as "merkin" to indicate they don't take themselves too seriously. ________________________________ From: "Gmail" <albertduro@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:00:36 -0700 To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Subject: AD: Re: [ActiveDir] newbie question <last of weekend OT?> Just out of curiosity, do you know what 'merkin' means, or are you just using it as a convenient contraction? BTW, this Merkin doesn't need a merkin... ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Singers <mailto:robert.singers@dbh.govt.nz> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:32 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] newbie question 2. If things go wrong on a Sunday change, you have Australia and the Kiwi's coming online that afternoon (EST) as their Monday morning so you will be quickly getting them chewing you out as they had to get their critical Monday morning work done, then as the evening (EST) rolls in you get the same calls from Europe and by the next morning if you still haven't gotten it sorted out because you are spending most of your time on the phone with Aussie and European execs, you then have the Americas calling and doing the same but worse they are stopping by your desk to give it a personal touch... In the meanwhile, because several thousand changes were made globally no one is really sure what exactly broke what and in some cases if what people are complaining about actually ever worked the way they were saying it was supposed to workΐ]... It was also my experience working for the evil Empire that any Virus\Worm with a date trigger went off in NZ first on a Monday and I'd be hip deep in diagnostics and submitting files to A/V vendors by the time the merkins could get on line or stumble into the office. Trying to factor in Sunday changes just made that more difficult. Generally it also lead to a bunch of emergency changes. ACLs and the like being put about the place to kill any further propagation of network storms. ________________________________ This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal ________________________________ ________________________________ Please Note: The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential and subject to privilege. Any opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of the Department of Building and Housing. All technical opinions are offered on a ?no-liability? basis. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email and delete the original and any attachment(s). Thank you. ________________________________ ############################################################ PLEASE NOTE: The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential and subject to privilege. Any opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of the Department of Building and Housing. All technical opinions are offered on a ?no-liability? basis. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email and delete the original and any attachment(s). Thank you. ############################################################

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